Korean thaw: Too soon to assume Kim is on the level

AP

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace each other after signing on a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Friday, April 27, 2018.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embrace each other after signing on a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AP)

U-T Letter writers

Too soon to assume Kim changed his ways

Re “Kim makes historic crossing” (April 27): We dare hope for a final resolution, even at the cost of grotesque irony. The photo of Korean presidents Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in lightly stepping over the north-south demarcation was doubly stunning.

Yes, the surprise meeting was decades overdue. But the helpful man who holds Moon’s hand also has ordered the murders of relatives, officials, underlings and their relatives and is responsible for the starvation of hundreds of thousands of his deluded countrymen.

E.N. Genovese

San Diego

World of politics has been turned on its head

Prior to Trump, Kim Jong-un was considered a clown with a funny haircut, surrounded by sordid sex scandals.

Now Trump is considered a clown with a funny haircut, surrounded by sordid sex scandals. And Kim Jong-un is a major player on the world stage. Who’s playing who here?